Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-26
CANNOT FIND HIM
Lone STARCH FOR a NORTH CAROLINA
cOrvICr.
Presty:erians-An Interesting and I'm.
portant Case Decided Richmond
Parties Interested.
Special telegram to the Dispatch.

l-Iffltl itttfiNm W tI' binIhtAh.l
RALEIGH, n. c., October 25.-The
Governors Guard to-day decided not
to leave for Richmond until tomorrow
evening, 80 as to be there Thursday and
Friday.
The weather to- night is terrible. A
cold rain is falling and a raw northeast
ern wind blowing.
A notorious white man named Obed
Maready. who was brought to the peni-
Tertiary some weeks past for larceny,
yesterday hid in the prison enclosure
and could not be found. Search was
kept up last night and was continued
to-day, but unavailingly. Maready,
whose atlas is Owen Manning, was
| captured in Beaufort county after a
desperate fight, in which he was shot.
He said last week that he did not
expect to remain long in the peniten-
tiary. He is supposed to be some
whore close. lie could hardly have
gotten over the immense wall. Search
will be kept up all night. No visitors
were allowed in the prison to-day.
The seventyfOurth annual session of
the Pre- sbytsIian Synod of North Caro-
| lima began at Fayetteville this evening,
Rev. John ". Primrose presiding rs
moderator.
At the colored fair to-day the at
tendance was small. Display of live
stock and farm products is the largest
and best yet made by the cOlored peo-
pie in this State. W. c. Coleman, of
Concord, makes the largest display ever
made by one exhibitor
Rev. Robert Strange, rector of the
Church Of the Good Shepherd. in this
city, has accepted call 10 St. Jamess
church, Wilmington.
The Supreme Court has fled an Opin-
ion in an important case III which the
plaintiff is n resident OF Richmond aud
a merchant. The suit is that of Nil
hiser rs. Erdmann. The pointinyOlyed
is a very nice one-the sale of goods
made on condition that vendee's prOmis
SOY notes do not pass title unless the
notes are paid. This general doctrine
was thought 10y most of the legal pro-
fcsson TO be iDapplicable to this State
on account Of the statute requiring the
registration of conditional sales. The
Supreme Court now decides otherwise.
1t is wise decision for the protection
Of creditors and to prevent fraud. Mr..
Milhiser is entitled to credit for having
pluck enough to 60 to the highest court
with it after defeat in the lower court.
Clement Manly, Esq, of Newberne,
was lis counsel, and argued the case
ably.
Governor Scales will probably in a
few days issue the death-warrant for the
execution Of the wife murderer Charles
+. Jones, at Newberne. 1t is said that
there is but little chance of JOnes's
escaping the gallows, though his friends
viii try hard TO secure Communication
of the death sentence
Some Of the eastern papers and the
eastern people are saying harsh words
about Governor Scales because he will
not sell the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima railway or consent for it to be
mOltgaged III order to raise funds for
the building of an extension to Fayette-
vile. They do the Governor great
| injustice. he is a careful man, and
with tie courage of his convictions.
He will not sell this road, in which the
State has 81, 200, 600 stock. That he
considers matter for the Legislature
to handle. The Cape-Fear and Yad-
kin-Nslley railway did not propose to
lease the Atlantic and North Carolina
railway. 1t only proposed to buy the
States stock therein at the rate of
| twenty cents on the dollar. Governor
| Scales says the road is deyClOping itself
If the two sys' ems are to be connected
| the fifty. fve-mile link between Colds
boro' and Fayetteville must be builtby
the Cape Fear and Yadkin-Y Valley road.
The entire matter goes over for con
sidoration by the Legislature, in case
the advocates of the scheme should de-
sire to press it further.
\ number OF now military companies
desirc permission to perfect their or
ganization They are located respect
lively at Newberne, Lumber Bridge,
J Plymouth, Winton, Warrcut0n, and
Reidsville. All arc infantry. There is
only one cavalry troop in the State. It
hoped TO be able to 90 to Richmond,
but it is not sufficiently proficient in
drill, and asyctonly pariiallyequippcd.
To-day's weather was bad indeed.
This week is 30 far a duplicate of last
week. Nevertheless the ninth annual
fair Of tho North Carolina Industrial
Association (colored) opened this morn
ing. Captain c. NJ. Cooke, of Frank
lin county, spoke as the representative
Of Governor Scales. An address was
delivered by S. S. Sewer (colored), of
Africa. Captain Cooke, in the name Of
the Governor, declared the fair formal
~ open.